BRITAIN’S DAVID CAMERON WANTS TO USE BOMBS TO PROSPECT FOR
GOLD IN SYRIA
John Chuckman
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour Party, is a man
of genuine integrity and honesty in his opposition to British bombing of Syria.
Indeed, he is everything the Prime Minister of Britain, David
Cameron, is not.
I think we see from the storm in the British press against
Corbyn just how much the establishment values integrity and honesty, which is
to say, not at all.
Almost every word of Cameron's on the subject of bombing is
deliberately deceptive.
He is in fact an intimate part of "the club" which
privately regards ISIS and other murdering rogues as tools to an end, and that end
is to destroy Assad and turn Syria into a rump state. The club’s members always
falsely describe the situation in Syria as a civil war rather than what it
truly is, an invasion of a peaceful land by the creatures of outside powers.
They freely admit ISIS is horrible, innumerable propaganda
videos having established the fact for the public, but they make no move to do
something genuine about it. They portray the only man who is doing something to
help Syria’s brave army, Vladimir Putin, as some kind of evil figure with
dreams of empire. There is a stream of propaganda and lies about everything Russia
does, from its cruise missiles hitting Iran to its planes bombing hospitals,
all offered with zero evidence.
Cameron’s every word on Syria is inappropriate. A British Prime
Minister has no business pronouncing on the legitimacy of this or that
government, especially one supported by the majority of the country's people,
clans, and armed forces. Cameron himself, posing as some cheap knock-off defender
of democracy, positively Churchillian in his own eyes, enjoys the support of
about 35% of British voters.
Assad's government has fought bravely against monsters shipped
in by Turkey and supplied by Saudi Arabia, Israel, and America for years now,
while David Cameron sat back and pontificated.
Assad is not an angel, but he runs a state with tolerance
for all religious groups in a region where that is not common, and he has often
been generous in helping those badly hurt by the likes of David Cameron – for
example, the millions of refugees created by the criminal invasion of Iraq. The
reason Assad is hated by Cameron and his associates in “the club” is his
independent-mindedness in not following Washington’s dictates. Cameron
functions as a noisy little lap dog yapping and snapping at anyone ignoring his
master, always in expectation of another approving stroke on the head. It truly
is that simple, and all the rest we read and hear is just noisy propaganda.
Washington and Tel Aviv are determined to see Assad gone.
And you must ask yourself why that should be a shared goal of the two most
violent societies on earth today, each of them in a state of perpetual war and
oppression of millions.
Yes, Turkey and Saudi Arabia hate Assad, too, but they
mostly do as they are told by Washington.
And remember, one of those countries, Turkey, is run by a
lunatic who assassinates journalists and any Kurdish person he can get his
hands on, and the other, Saudi Arabia, is run by a senile absolute monarch who regularly
cuts off heads and crucifies people and is conducting an illegal war in Yemen,
killing civilians daily.
Those are the characters with which David Cameron shares his
bed.
What is really at stake here is virtually never discussed in
public: the right of countries to exist in peace without outside interference
from aggressive states like America and Israel. The United Nations should be in
the forefront of demanding just that, but it has been reduced to servility
through internal manipulations and threats, especially threats of withholding
American financial support as was done some years back. Ban Ki-moon is perhaps
the most ineffectual Secretary General in memory, sometimes sounding like a
pope enjoining peace with no one listening.
Britain's bombing in Syria would be just plain old-fashioned
aggression adding to that already being done by ISIS, al-Nusra, and other
cutthroats. We don’t know what targets Cameron has in mind, but he simply has
no business in the country, and we can be sure that if he were sincere about
only attacking terrorists, Syria would have welcomed him in its desperate fight.
Cameron just keeps repeating, like an unpleasant child who thinks repetition
makes something so, that the government of Syria must go.
The government of Syria has not sought Britain's help, and
contrary to arrogant people like David Cameron, Syria does indeed have a
government, as legitimate as most in the world.
The only people doing any bombing with the permission of the
government are the Russians, and they are supporting the only people doing any
real fighting, the Syrian army.
This is not a small point for all those concerned about the
rule of law, which you might think would be a prime concern for those who claim
they oppose terror.
It took centuries to establish some rule of law in
international affairs, and today states like America and Israel and Turkey
ignore it completely.
Good old David Cameron wants to join the mob, getting his
bit of attention.
And it can't have escaped Cameron's attention how handsomely
the war criminal, Tony Blair, has been rewarded for doing his dirty part in
tearing apart Iraq. He has been showered with gold and sinecures.
Wouldn't it be natural for Cameron to expect a bit of that
for dropping bombs on Syria?
